For Cee’s FOTD
I loved this happy scene so had to share it. No flowers but plenty of fronds.
FOTD Aug 28, 2022
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Failed Reformation
Failed Reformation
In between sit-ups and stretches,
hubby moans and groans and kvetches.
For him there is no correlation
between fitness and elation.
Each new feasible solution
resulting in his diminution
though undefined, I think just might
bring about my spouse’s flight
to avoid any surprises
involving his exercises.
What he should look like and should weigh
bring disagreements every day,
for though I want him lean and svelte,
if you asked him what he felt,
he’d say a form more soft and paunchy
suits a man who is more raunchy.
While I tout vegetables and soys,
he wants to be one of the boys.
Hamburgers and fries and shakes,
baked potatoes and rib eye steaks
are the menus he prefers,
so when we order, it’s “his and hers.”
Chef salad is what I will choose.
His order? Pork chops, pie and booze!
Prompts today are flight, disagreement, stretches, feasible, undefined and correlation. Photo by ehimetalor akhere unuabona on Unsplash.
Hibiscus Studies, Aug 27, 2022
I could not decide which of these shots I liked the best, so here they all are! Shot this early evening from the pool. Please click on them to enlarge and see the details!
Dining out on my favorite hibiscus
For Cee’s FOTD
August Buffet
August Buffet
Although we came for the buffet,
what harm is there if we delay?
That pile of leaves looks so inviting.
The kid in me it is inciting.
Piled up so deep and dense and crunchy,
even though I’m feeling lunchy,
still I have a need more urgent,
childish thoughts now more resurgent.
All of spring’s precipitation
prompted lush leaves and the inception
of my hopes for autumn joys
shared by kids—both girls and boys
in festering imaginations
for these countless generations.
And so, we take a giant leap
to dive into the glorious heap,
Rolling in their crisp and crunch,
forestalling our urgency to munch.
Then, brushing off our fronts and backs,
we go inside for drinks and snacks.
2015
Prompts today are crunchy, look, buffet, August, spring and precipitation. Image of leaves by Patrick Connor and buffet by Markus Winkler, both @Unsplash and image of me by Forgottenman. Other images by me.
Love Lost, Love Gained
“Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part.”
Love Lost, Love Gained
Since my true love just up and left,
there’s no relief. I am bereft.
No matter how much I expound,
help is nowhere to be found.
Come, wipe the memory of his face.
Let, then, a new love take its place.
“Us” bleached out from my memory,
kiss wiped so a new kiss may be,
and so forsake this moan and vetting.
Part of love lies in forgetting.
For the dVerse Poets prompt, we were to take one of the given lines and to make a poem of it, using each word of the line, in order, as the the beginning word in each line of our poem. The the line I chose precedes the poem: “Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part.”
For dVerse Poets
To see other poems written to this prompt, go HERE.
Near or Far? More or Less?
Or farther up
or near, balloons always capture the eye.
and close up
but close up, it proved to be friendly.
Rainy Day Labors
Water lilies at any distance are amazing
Please click on photos to enlarge and read captions.
I started this post a few days ago and now have lost the prompt. It was basically to take closeups and then a matching more far-away scenic shot. I have the pics but not the prompt. If anyone knows the link, please share. Which do you prefer? Far away or close up?
Silk Floss Tree: FOTD Aug 26, 2022
Faces, Fronds and Ferns: FOTD Aug 25, 2022
For Cee’s FOTD
That Last Infernal Prompt
She said: Feeling sad.
That Last Infernal Prompt
She was the only casualty of the delphic clue
so obscure no other blogger knew quite what to do
with a word like “xiphisternal.” What other site was rude
enough to pose a prompt word so juvenile and crude?
She tried to write a ballad that would win her wide renown.
Instead, the stress of writing it was what brought her down.
That heart attack (her cause of death) was ironically infernal,
for the last pain that she felt on earth was sadly xiphisternal
Prompt words today are juvenile, casualty, ballad, delphic, xiphisternal and down.
To save your looking it up as I was forced to do, the xiphisternal joint (or xiphisternal symphysis) is a location near the bottom of the sternum, where the body of the sternum and the xiphoid process meet.
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Ancient Monkey
I love this beautiful painting of a monkey I saw on a remnant of a mural on a wall in Pompeii. I’d love to have a painting of it hanging on my wall!
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